Recovery Diva
APRIL 12, 2023
Keywords: disaster recovery, adaptation, innovation, resiliency, case studies, Reviewer : Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc. Early recovery must balance the speed of returning to normalcy with long-term goals that promote resilience. Neely, Liliya Kasatkina Quebedeaux, Erin Rider, Samuel J.B.
Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. It is common to find lags and inertia in civil protection. that are pertinent to the field.
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Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale.
Recovery Diva
MAY 12, 2022
Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop. Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Emergency Planning
JULY 29, 2019
For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Bilham 2011. However, the solution often lies in the context, not the problem. Ambraseys, N. Ling and K.
Disaster Recovery
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
The meat-processing business was severely hit during the 2011 Great Plains drought and many businesses had to either shut down or shift operations to an alternate location. Location Specific Environmental Hazards. Facilities, operations and management need to adapt to their environments and protect against location specific hazards.
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